K2! wrote:If you're going to go to the trouble/expense of transferring your vinyls to a digital format so you can enjoy them without the wearing them away, record them to a lossless uncompressed format like WAV, not MP3s. You can always make a smaller (compressed and lossy) MP3 file from the archived WAV file.
Are these colored vinyl records anything special like having tracks "only available on this pressing" or something? Generally colored vinyl and picture disc versions were just for show and had a lower fidelity than regular "black" vinyl. Unless they contain some otherwise unavailable tracks, their value is in the novelty of the colored vinyl. So if you're interested in keeping your colored vinyls as collector's items, skip the transferring, keep the vinyl in their sleeves, and just buy/listen to your MP3s.
absynthe1972 wrote:I copy mine to .aiff files. They're huge but a higher quality than .wav.
K2! wrote:absynthe1972 wrote:I copy mine to .aiff files. They're huge but a higher quality than .wav.
If Apple says so.
"the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. The standard audio file format for CDs, for example, is LPCM-encoded, containing two channels of 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample. Since LPCM uses an uncompressed storage method which keeps all the samples of an audio track, professional users or audio experts may use the WAV format for maximum audio quality."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
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